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Hophills Nob
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3400
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3400 (3400)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Jedburgh
- National Grid reference
- NT 7067 0946
- Latitude
- 55.37827
- Longitude
- -2.46441
- Altitude
- 359 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.19 ha
- Footprint
- 0.34 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1947); Other (1960); Other (1976)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 57905
- National record
- record NT 70 NW 15; monument 57905
- Wikidata
- Q31105541
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1956) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. An inventory of the ancient and historical monuments of Roxburghshire: with the fourteenth report of the Commission, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh